The Last Hunger Season Revisited
We revisit the families profiled in Council senior fellow Roger Thurow's book, The Last Hunger Season, six years later.
Six years after its publication, Council senior fellow Roger Thurow returns to Western Kenya to revisit the farm families first profiled in his book, The Last Hunger Season. Learn how much progress the families have made while consequently seeing the challenges they still face. Powerful imagery brings their stories to life while Thurow also examines the US legacy of supporting the eradication of hunger at home and abroad.
About the Author
Roger Thurow
Former Senior Fellow, Global Food and Agriculture
Roger Thurow is a journalist and author who writes about the persistence of hunger and malnutrition in our world as well as global agriculture and food policy. He was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal for thirty years, including twenty years as a foreign correspondent based in Europe and Africa. He is the author of three books, including "Abiding Hunger: An American Paradox."